An insurance company magnate and two associates go on trial this week on charges they conspired to bribe an elected North Carolina regulator with up to $2 million in campaign money so scrutiny of his businesses would ease. U.S. District ...

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MOUNT AIRY (AP) The clerk of court in one North Carolina county said she never meant to require any of her employees to work for her re-election even though that’s what a leaked memo said. After the memo was published, ...

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Former Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon is expected to plead guilty in federal court to a public corruption charge that could send him to prison until 2034.

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LILLINGTON – A former Harnett County employee has been ordered to pay the county more than $5 million in a case involving missing documents and claims of corruption. The Fayetteville Observer reported (http://bit.ly/1k7SSwE) that Superior Court Judge Douglas Sasser has ...

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To read the complaint, click here. Patrick Cannon resigned March 26, three months into his term as mayor of Charlotte and hours after he was arrested on charges of corruption, bribery, theft involving federally funded programs, wire fraud and extortion ...

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Judges considering an appeal by imprisoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich spent much of oral arguments Friday focusing on one question: At what point does run-of-the-mill political horse-trading and veer into corruption?

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